MSTP students in the Sahoo lab
Medical Scientist Training Program
Rana Mansour

Rana Mansour

M2 Student

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BA, Political Science, The American University in Cairo, 2020

Biography

Neurodegeneration, mitochondrial homeostasis, genomics, political etiology

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, November 2022-May 2023
Advisor: Blake Hill, PhD & Allison Ebert, PhD
Project: Mitochondrial dynamics in age-related neurodegenerative diseases

Medical College of Wisconsin, November 2022-May 2023
Advisor: Blake Hill, PhD
Project: Determination of fission protein expression levels in cancer cells

Zewail City of Science and Technology, 2020-2022
Advisor: Menattallah Elserafy, PhD
Project: 1) Investigating the mechanisms of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats (DPRs) Toxicity; 2) Studying the relation between the Exocyst Complex and resistance to cancer drugs

Publications

Elsadany M, Elghaish RA, Khalil AS, Ahmed AS, Mansour RH, Badr E, Elserafy M. Transcriptional Analysis of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Genes in Eight Neurodegenerative Disorders: The Analysis of Seven Diseases in Reference to Friedreich's Ataxia. Front Genet. 2021 Dec 20;12:749792. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.749792. PMID: 34987545; PMCID: PMC8721009.

General Interests

Fencing, reading, poetry, running, political theory